Is Memory Important in the Digital Age?
Dave Beruh
Certified Health Coach - Helping My Clients Lose Weight Get Off Prescription Medications and Feel Great.
Before the invention of the printing press memory was vital to passing down crucial knowledge, today you can look it up on youtube, Wikipedia and Google.
Even after the printing press, written knowledge was unwieldy so memorization of certain facts made life easier.
Today of course we carry around a pocket computer more powerful than the huge main frames of the early computing age and certainly more functional.
And the digital age has also brought a rapid quickening of technological change. How quickly things change can be amazing. For perspective lets look back at the remarkable life of one of America's founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin.
By trade Franklin was a printer and made significant contributions to many fields including electricity, home heating and health care. He was the father of “snail mail” as America’s first Postmaster General.
In no small part because of Franklin and others like him, America in the 18th Century went from a Colonial backwater to one of the burgeoning centers of technological invention.
That said not that much changed during Franklin's lifetime (1706 - 1790), at least technologically speaking.
What of modern day Franklins born in 1906? They would have seen the start of the widespread use of new technology such as home refrigeration, the automobile, the airplane, telephones and radio; and the invention of television, cell phones, computers and the internet.
And the pace has quickened in the 21st Century. Are you old enough to remember FAX machines? As a Realtor in the 90s, I wondered how we did business before they were invented. Now FAX machines are obsolete. Same with VCR players and cassette tapes.
So year by year we are having to learn more and more new things. Change is the new constant. We need to learn more and know more. And to know is another way of saying to memorize.
Rote memorization has gotten a bad name. But in order to create you have to know the basics. And you cannot know something if you don't have it memorized.
Do you want to be able to learn faster and remember more?
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